Bluebells - Forest of Dean - 2010

They were late this year due to the severe weather in January and February. The bracken is now quite bad in places and spoils the usual blanket of blue, but there are still some good spots for pics!



Rob

Mid Wales

I have been busy clearing snow over the last couple of days and have had no time to venture out with the camera "yet"!
While outside it got me thinking about some cold days spent in Mid Wales with the camera, over the last few years.

Thought I would give my pics a showing.....


Here are a few of the small waterfalls that you see while driving around. Sometimes you have to follow the streams up the side of a mountain for the best shot, but it is worth it, as long as you make it back down in one piece!

I can't go to Mid Wales without taking a trip to Gigrin Farm, near Rhayader, to watch and "try" to photograph the feeding of the red kites!

Sometimes the weather is not on my side, but it is still an awesome sight, to see up to 300 kite's in the sky at the same time.

This is a rare white kite, alongside a red kite. The backdrop is spectacular and helps you to achieve awesome photographs.

Having a rest!

This is a buzzard "I think"? Someone who was also there filming told me that it was a red kite, buzzard hybrid!

Don't know what to believe. What do you think?

Grey Heron's take advantage of the free food, as well as the buzzards!

If you want to know if it is worth going, take a look at this photograph. The dots and specs in the distance are not from a dusty sensor. They are red kites!

Rob

Forest of Dean 21st December 2009

It snowed again during the night and this could mean only one thing? My friends would need feeding again!

While I was out there feeding the birds, a sparrow hawk came through, swiftly gliding as if on a blanket of warm air, not a sound, but very powerful.

For a moment I thought it was my fault, for attracting a large number of birds to one location? This is true, as the sparrow hawk will often use regular feeding locations as a source of food, but you have to weigh up the situation!

You feed up to and usually over 100 birds at one time, sometimes one will be taken by a bird of prey! This is unfortunate, but to lose one while helping over 100 to survive the winter has to be worth it?

Below is a video of a snow covered Forest of Dean, from one of our famous viewpoints, New Fancy View! With some birds and pics at the end.

Turn the volume up!

Rob

Symonds Yat Rock - Viewpoint (video)

I took a trip down to Symonds Yat Rock viewpoint "early" this morning! It was sooooo cold that a crow froze solid in mid flight and flew straight into my eyeball, breaking his beak off!
Honest, here is the pic!

Click pic for larger view.

Anyway, enough of that. Here is a short video I put together from around 10 min of footage.

Turn the volume up!

Rob

Winter

Video and photographs taken in the Brecon Beacons, in January 2009.


Don't forget to - TURN THE VOLUME UP

Autumn is here

Here are some autumn pics from this year and previous years. All were taken in the Forest of Dean.

Autumn in the Forest of Dean

I know we have only just broken into summer, but this is what we have got to look forward to. All photographs taken in Forest of Dean by me.

Don't forget to turn the volume up!

Enjoy...

Bluebell Picture Video

Here is a little something I put together to make the bluebells even more beautiful to watch.

Bluebells in the Forest of Dean

Enjoy one of the most natural beautiful events in the Forest of Dean from your arm chair, (or pc chair!).

Taken near Blakeney on Friday 8th May 09.

Thanks for lookin'

Rob

New Fancy Deer

Here are some Fallow Deer I filmed on Friday 13.03.09, while looking down from New Fancy viewpoint towards the felled area below. Two of them are melanistic (or black) (no target on their bums).

This was taken with my Panasonic SDR H60 at 50x optical zoom.